Here are some more URL's. Thanks to everyone who contributed. RRE home page: http://dlis.gseis.ucla.edu/people/pagre/rre.html war New War Building Up in Central Mindanao http://www.manilatimes.net/national/2002/mar/06/top_stories/20020306top1.html Military Officers Criticize Rush to Use Ground Troops http://www.washingtontimes.com/national/20020307-59671360.htm jargon watch: study the quick, hazy caricature of media reports in 1st para. (notice the word "various", the hyperbole, the lack of specifics, etc) http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=105001725 photos of the plane hitting the Pentagon http://www.msnbc.com/news/720851.asp Government Gone Underground http://dc.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=18573&group=webcast the military plans to have soldiers calling in airstrikes using Windows CE! (hopefully the coordinates for Redmond won't be the defaults) http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99992005 Postol vs. the Pentagon http://www.techreview.com/articles/print_version/taubes0402.asp civil liberties and security Bush Policy Endangers American and Allied Troops http://www.iht.com/cgi-bin/generic.cgi?template=articleprint.tmplh&ArticleId=50068 Airline Allegedly Hindered Marshals http://www.usatoday.com/usatonline/20020306/3916146s.htm http://www.usatoday.com/usatonline/20020306/3916311s.htm http://www.usatoday.com/usatonline/20020306/3916308s.htm EDS, Oracle Launch Airport Security Wares (they're called "Known Traveler" and "Secure Employee") http://www.idg.net/ic_826210_1794_9-10000.html OASIS Members Form Technical Committee to Define XML Standard for Biometrics http://www.oasis-open.org/news/oasis_news_03_07_02.shtml Department of Defense Biometrics Management Office http://www.c3i.osd.mil/biometrics/home.htm Identity Theft: Prevalence and Cost Appear to be Growing http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d02363.pdf European Union Article 29 Working Group on Data Protection http://www.europa.eu.int/comm/internal_market/en/dataprot/index.htm Judge Says Amateur News Gatherers Have Same Rights as Professionals http://www.boston.com/dailynews/065/nation/Judge_says_amateur_news_gather:.shtml CIA Details Found on Google http://www.vnunet.com/News/1129730 http://www.trustmatta.com/services/docs/Matta_Counterintelligence.pdf Vienna Skewered as a Nazi-Era Pillager of Its Jews http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/07/international/europe/07AUST.html scandal The Road to Enron http://www.prospect.org/print/V13/6/kuttner-r.html "nearly 70 percent of Americans say they do not trust Corporate America" http://www.odwyerpr.com/0226golin_study.htm Highlights of Forum on Corporate Governance, Transparency, and Accountability http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d02494sp.pdf A Market Solution to the Accounting Crisis http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/08/opinion/08RONE.html?pagewanted=print SEC Struggles With Budget Constraints as Cases Rise http://quote.bloomberg.com/fgcgi.cgi?T=uspolitics_news.ht&s=APIUB1hVlU0VDIFN0 Private Pensions: Key Issues to Consider Following the Enron Collapse http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d02480t.pdf Army Chief Rebuked for Keeping Ties to Enron http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000017071mar07.story http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A51722-2002Mar6?language=printer http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/08/business/08WHIT.html http://talkingpointsmemo.com/march0201.html#030702213pm Ray Scrambling for GOP Support http://www.rollcall.com/pages/news/00/2002/03/news0307c.html politics An Analysis of the President's Budgetary Proposals for 2003 http://www.cbo.gov/showdoc.cfm?index=3299&sequence=0&from=7 http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=514&u=/ap/20020306/ap_on_go_co/budget_12 Paul O'Neill suggests that the US was never in a recession (it'd follow that it wasn't the recession that made the $4T surplus disappear) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A20544-2002Feb28.html What Would Really Happen Under Social Security Privatization? http://www.socsec.org/ http://www.ourfuture.org/readarticle.asp?ID=1234 Leahy asks GAO to investigate FOIA matters http://www.fas.org/sgp/congress/2002/leahy-gao.html Debunking Lynxgate http://outside.away.com/outside/news/lynxgate_1.adp entertaining document from a PR campaign for the former government of Zaire http://talkingpointsmemo.com/kloberg.2.html everything else Wal-Mart Trumps Moore's Law http://www.techreview.com/articles/schrage0302.asp argument urging the Republicans to oppose mandatory rights management software http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,47296,00.html Court Sets Jury Trial Date in Morpheus Peer-to-Peer Software Case http://www.eff.org/IP/P2P/MGM_v_Grokster/20020304_eff_pr.html Digital Domesday Book Lasts 15 Years Not 1000 (seems they kept it on 8-track tapes in the glove compartment) http://books.guardian.co.uk/news/articles/0,6109,661585,00.html New Timex Watch Can Buy Gas, Burgers (barf -- have we lost our imaginations entirely?) http://www.azcentral.com/offbeat/articles/0228Timex-ON.html growing sophistication of online auction fraud http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/07/technology/circuits/07FRAU.html?pagewanted=all Guide to the Best Business Links http://www.business2.com/webguide?ref=b3 The "New Economy": Background, Questions, and Speculations http://econ161.berkeley.edu/Econ_Articles/summersjh2001.pdf Economics of Information Technology http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/~hal/Papers/mattioli.pdf useful outline of the basic economics of intermediaries http://zzyx.ucsc.edu/~boxjenk/ec139-02/139w02-07.pdf Important Archive of Malcolm X Speeches & Letters to Auctioned by Butterfields http://www.butterfields.com/pr/press_books_022702.html http://search.liveauctions.ebay.com/search/search.dll?MfcISAPICommand=GetResult&ht=11&query=malcolm+x http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/07/arts/07MALC.html Community in the Digital Age (webcast symposium), 9 March 2002 http://www.hixon.hmc.edu/Calendar.html Escaping the Iron Cage, or, Subversive Rationalization and Democratic Theory http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/faculty/feenberg/schom1.htm closure list from LA County's ferocious restaurant inspection program (it's hard to imagine a county resident who won't find a familiar place here) http://phps.dhs.co.la.ca.us/phcommon/public/eh/closure/restall1.cfm the cool story of extinct megafauna http://www.salon.com/people/feature/2002/03/07/megafauna/print.html end
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